Patrick Batelink

We've had the fortune to host a podcast with @SergeyNazarov in New York, during @chainlink's Smartcon! Basically; we have no clue what's yet to come in this cycle. Sergey explains why, and how, with @chainlink. Watch the episode of @new_era_finance here: youtu.be/bm606agSL1Q

🏅 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Swift Hackathon, @chainlinklabs and @DeutscheBank! Chainlink secured the Business Challenge title with a solution that combines its automated compliance standard with the trusted verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) framework to enhance regulatory compliance. Deutsche Bank took the Technical Challenge with a digital-to-fiat bridge using ISO 20022 to enable interoperable CBDC and digital currency transfers across jurisdictions. Congratulations also to the runners up, @CreditAgricole in the Business Challenge, and Currency Network Ltd in the Technical Challenge. We’d also like to give an honourable mention to @BancoGuayaquil and @exactpro for their creative approaches and strong execution. Read more about this year’s winning solutions: swift.com/news-events/ne… #swiftatsibos #sibos #blockchain #iso20022 #digitalcurrencies

We’re excited to announce that Chainlink has been selected as the winner of the Swift (@swiftcommunity) Hackathon 2025 Business Challenge. blog.chain.link/chainlink-wins… A record-breaking 104 entrants made this Hackathon Swift’s largest yet, with premier financial institutions like Credit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered among the finalists. Chainlink’s winning solution unlocks fast, compliance-focused, and privacy-preserving digital asset settlement across borders and blockchains. We successfully demonstrated how Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), in conjunction with GLEIF’s vLEI and Swift messages, unlock a new cross-chain, cross-border model for the trading and settlement of regulated digital assets. The same winning approach can be extended to power regulatory-compliant stablecoins, tokenized deposits, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), digital securities, and other tokenized financial instruments.

We’re excited to announce that Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has formed a strategic partnership with Chainlink to publish its market data onchain for the first time. prnewswire.com/news-releases/… Real-time data from the largest exchanges in Europe, Deutsche Börse Group’s Eurex, Xetra, 360T, and Tradegate—trading venues covering equities, derivatives, forex instruments, and more—are being made available across blockchains via DataLink, a new institutional-grade data publishing service powered by Chainlink. Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services delivers four billion data points in real time every day and has handled more than €1.3 trillion in securities trading last year. With DataLink, Deutsche Börse Group is bringing real-time, multi-asset class data onchain from: • Eurex—Europe’s largest derivatives exchange, listing interest rate, equity/index, volatility, dividend, FX, and other futures and options. In 2024, Eurex recorded over 2.08 billion traded contracts in exchange-traded derivatives with a capital open interest of €3.6 trillion. • Xetra—Europe’s leading venue for ETFs and ETPs by turnover and listings, with around €230.8 billion in trading volume last year alone. • 360T—Deutsche Börse Group’s global foreign exchange unit operates one of the biggest FX trading venues in the world, predominantly used by some of the world’s largest corporations to hedge currency exposures. 360T serves more than 2,900 buy-side customers and more than 200 liquidity providers across 75 countries. • Tradegate—A stock exchange specialising in executing private investors’ orders. Over 30 trading participants from Germany, Austria, and Ireland are currently connected and offer access to their customers from their own country and abroad. Since January, Tradegate has recorded a turnover of €247.8 billion with over 34 million transactions. “Partnering with Chainlink to publish Deutsche Börse Group’s trusted market data onchain for the first time marks a major milestone in connecting traditional and blockchain-based financial markets. By making data from Xetra, Eurex, 360T, and Tradegate accessible onchain through the Chainlink data standard, we are empowering global financial institutions to build the next generation of regulated financial products on the same high-quality data that underpins today’s markets.” – Dr. Alireza Dorfard, Managing Director, Head of Market Data + Services at Deutsche Börse Group. By bringing Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services’ real-time data onchain, DataLink accelerates institutional adoption of digital assets by providing financial institutions access to the same high-quality data onchain they already rely on today to support their financial services.

We’re excited to announce a landmark technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows directly from their existing systems using Swift (@swiftcommunity) messaging and Chainlink in collaboration with @UBS. prnewswire.com/news-releases/… With Swift messages and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), banks and institutions can seamlessly access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied upon for decades. The first use case involved UBS Tokenize, the tokenization unit of one of the world’s largest private banks with over $6 trillion in assets under management. Subscriptions and redemptions for a tokenized fund smart contract from UBS were triggered using ISO 20022 messages through CRE and Swift infrastructure. CRE received the Swift messages, which then triggered subscription and redemption workflows in the newly launched Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard. This new plug-and-play solution shows how transfer agents, financial institutions, and other entities can manage tokenized asset workflows onchain without upgrading to new infrastructure, replacing their existing processes, or integrating new identity and key management solutions.

At Sibos 2025, @SergeyNazarov presented how onchain standards can combine with existing systems and standards to create next-gen digital assets, including: • Introducing a major industry milestone in a global corporate actions initiative led by Chainlink in collaboration with 24 of the world’s largest financial organizations (Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, and more). • A live discussion with the DTCC’s Global Head of Digital Assets Nadine Chakar on how combining blockchains, oracles, and AI provide a real solution to the long-standing corporate actions problem. • A focus on Swift’s new blockchain-based ledger announcement that builds on existing work between Swift and Chainlink to facilitate interoperability across existing and emerging systems for various use cases. • Establishing compliance across blockchains and token standards through the Chainlink compliance standard and Cross-Chain Identity (CCID). And multiple other key developments accelerating the adoption of institutional tokenization. 🔗 Presentation slides: blog.chain.link/wp-content/upl… Watch the full video now ⬇️